Llewellyn Elementary School vs Grout Elementary School

Grout Elementary School and Llewellyn Elementary School sit 1.3 miles apart in Portland, Oregon, and rank among the strongest elementary schools in the state. Grout holds the marginal overall edge at 9.4/10 versus Llewellyn's 9.3/10, placing it #14 of 1,226 schools in Oregon compared to Llewellyn's #22. That eight-rank gap is narrow enough that both schools belong in the same tier — but the underlying component scores tell different stories worth examining.

On academics, Llewellyn Elementary School leads by six-tenths of a point, scoring 9.9/10 against Grout Elementary School's 9.3/10 — a meaningful gap in a metric that measures tested proficiency levels. Grout flips the advantage on growth, scoring 9.8/10 versus Llewellyn's 9.0/10. That 0.8-point growth edge matters: it reflects how much students improve year over year relative to academic peers, which can be a more reliable signal of classroom instruction quality than a static proficiency snapshot.

The demographic contrast between the two schools is sharp. Grout Elementary School serves 302 students with 65% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch — a high-poverty student body by Oregon standards. Llewellyn Elementary School enrolls 393 students with only 19% on free or reduced-price lunch. Llewellyn's student-teacher ratio is slightly more favorable at 15.7:1 versus Grout's 16.8:1, though both are within a reasonable range for public elementary schools. These demographic differences likely explain much of the academic score gap: Grout's higher growth score alongside a higher-poverty enrollment is a signal that its teachers are moving students forward at an above-average rate given the starting points.

Both schools cover grades KG–05 and operate within the same Portland district. Neither school offers a programmatic distinction in the available data — same grade span, same general structure. The choice hinges on whether a family prioritizes absolute proficiency levels (Llewellyn's strength) or accelerated student growth (Grout's strength), alongside the socioeconomic composition of the peer group their child will learn alongside.